Note place and time animal's caught and used as target (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
clay pigeon
'target' is the definition.
(clay pigeon is a kind of target)
'note place and time animal's' is the wordplay.
'note' becomes 'c' (musical note).
'place' becomes 'lay' (synonyms).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'time animal' becomes 'pigeon' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'c'+'lay'+'pigeon'='CLAY PIGEON'
'caught and used as' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for clay pigeon that I've seen before include "target of gunmen" , "Trap shooter's target" , "Disc to be shot" , "Disc fired into the air as target for shooting" , "Moving target" .)